Arundhati Roy I’ve always enjoyed hearing Indian activist Arundhati Roy‘s critique of the Bush Administration‘s so-called war on terror in particular, and her analysis of US imperialism and globalization in general. Now that the blowback from predatory corporatist feudalism is shifting to South Asia, she is particularly well-positioned to comment and make sense of it all. Case in point: her …
Dodo birds like Gafney can blather all they want about how “delighted” they are about the necessity of offering upwards of 600,00 deaths on the altar of American hegemony. But the ingrown hypocrisy of incubating a staggering 5,500 nuclear weapons we reserve the right to use pre-emptively on any buddy we choose, is morally and ethically bankrupt.
• • • SCATOLOGY WEEK • • • We can work it out. Leaving a Legacy of Shit for Barack to clean up may be the smartest thing Dick-Bush ever did. (Hold your nose and click it.) I don’t know about you, but I’m fed up. I’ve had enough shit from the Dick-Bush Debacle (D-BD) the past eight years to …
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VcvmoGjGNc[/youtube] Joseph A. Violante: We’ve heard a good deal recently about the 18 percent of men and women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan who are at risk for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or depression, according to an authoritative RAND Corporation study. Another 19 percent are estimated of having experienced traumatic brain injury (TBI) caused by improvised explosive devices that “rattle” …
Just watched the Obama 30 minute ad, and to be honest, I have to say I had a hard time identifying with it.
The Grand Oil Party slogging through the political wilderness Updating my initial compilation of the Obamacans (Republicans for Obama ) is becoming quite the task. Add endorsements from the likes of W’s former Secretary of State Colin Powell and press spokesman Scotty McClellan; former Reagan’s UN Secretary Kenneth Adleman; former McCain adviser Charles Fried; former Minnesota Republican Governor William Weld; …
